Conference

Embrace your heritage,

Embrace your myths and traditions,


There are voices to be heard and

stories to be shared through photography,

...and photography practice to be explored

through personal stories and feelings.

 

What's your story? Who are you?

 

 

  • 30% discount for group bookings.
  • It is expected that the next conference will take place on 25th March 2025.

  • Complete details of your participation will be available here, including the booking form for your submission.

Please select one option

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Name *
E-mail *
Organisation name
Phone
Abstract. No more than 200 words *
Message. (Please feel free to provide additional details.)
 
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Please visit the Courses and Workshops sections for inspiration possible guidance.

Ideally your photography work is focused on myths, folklore, personal feelings or memories explored through photography as a creative practice.

 

We hope that people will bring in new and unexpected photography topics to be discussed, curiosities, problems or questions, which would be valued by everyone. We expect that at the end of each conference, there will be a homogeneous material related to the photo-entanglement theme, from which everyone would have something to take away for their own work.

 

Here are a few examples of potential photography topics to be explored:

  • Re-imagining, imagining, familiarity, every day, the unknown, the new;

  • The missing object, objects together, misplaced object(s), unseen, staged or banal;

  • From afar, at a distance, distance, behind, shadows, colour, shape and time;

  • The narrative, the missing or incomplete image, the missing photograph;

  • Misrepresentation and misunderstanding;

  • The printed photographed as a physical object, the digital photograph as a virtual object;

  • Self-exploration. Who am I?

  • Artificial intelligence and the mechanical act of taking or reproducing a picture;

  • The possibility of creating a photograph without a meaning;

  • What if I create a photograph and someone else would write the artist statement?

  • What if I create a photograph for an already written statement?

 

Details available soon here for: Conference Participant Info Page 

  • 25th March 2025

  • The theme is the photo-entanglement in photography.
  • We invite you to submit a 200-word abstract proposal.
  • We are particularly interested in works aligned with the Chester Photo Festival's vision and mission.
  • Only if your work is selected, you will be asked to pay a fee of £55 per speaker to cover the conference cost.
  • We expect mixed presentations, including in person and online, via a projector in the lecture theatre.
  • 15 to 20 minutes for each presentation plus 5 minutes for questions and moderation.

the photo-entanglement conference

 

The annual photography conference is expected to take place in the lecture theatre at Grosvenor Museum in Chester.